I get not buying leather. The animal (hopefully) is killed before it is flayed and its skin made into a rad belt and matching shoes. But wool doesn't kill the animal. And if one buys from politically correct sheep farmers the sheep are practically volunteers, right?
Mark is actually trying to tell a really stupid joke that I'm not following (he's tried to explain it twice, maybe I'm just too tired, I was sleeping until Bert's loud pooping woke me up
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Ugh, I was so tired, I wrote back to Mark's silly comment. And I'm too tired to copy-paste. But basically, I agree with you, although in some cases, they do weird things to sheep, like cutting off their butts to prevent buttworm. No, really.
Actually, I think it's (vegans using leather products) even better (than paying huge amounts of money for 'vegan' shoes), since you're recycling something that might otherwise end up in a landfill.
But then again, I wear second hand leather myself, so perhaps I'm just justifying.
I agree, although in my case, I have several pairs of new Doc Martens I got for $15 each at their warehouse sale in PDX many years ago. I am a total hypocrite when it comes to shoes, although I don't have as many shoes as most girls because I only ever end up wearing the same couple pairs and have only bought 2 pairs in the past 4 years (to replace ones that wore out -- a pair of heels (I only have one pair of heels, I'm not good in heels) and a pair of running shoes (my other pair is 12 years old)...
I made some RIGHTEOUS tempeh last night. Sliced onions, peppers, baby carrots, broccoli, water chestnuts, and thai yellow curry, all with some olive oil fried tempeh chunks.
SO. TASTIES.
We have straw mushrooms that would have gone well with it, but I forgot to add them. Oh well. NEXT TIME.
Having lived in Australia my whole life, and been friends with many farmers personally, I can honestly say that the outrage against mulesing (cutting off the butt-skin) is due mostly to lack of direct experience with flystrike (myiasis) and ignorance, especially for the conditions we have here. I understand, truly, that it's a pretty awful thing to do - just going and cutting off a flap of skin around the lamb's butt - but once you've seen those poor animals suffering flystrike (it only takes a day or two for bacterial infection after the maggots have hatched, not to mention the maggots eating the lamb's flesh)... and in many instances, it's just not feasible for the farmer to adopt an alternative, due to cost or less effective measures against flystrike
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But then again, I wear second hand leather myself, so perhaps I'm just justifying.
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SO. TASTIES.
We have straw mushrooms that would have gone well with it, but I forgot to add them. Oh well. NEXT TIME.
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Did I tell you I got a juicer?
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